A House of Dust, a poetry project created by Alison Knowles and James Tenney
in 1967, an early example of a computer generated poem,
creating stanzas by working through iterations of lines with
changing words from a finite vocabulary list.

Phillis Wheatley, An Elegiac Poem: on the Death of that Celebrated Divine and Eminent Servant of Jesus Christ, the Reverend and Learned George Whitefield…, [Boston: Ezekeil Russel, 1770]. (JWJ Zan W56 +77OE; view all images in this set)

A few poems from the latest group of archives from the prolific poet, biographer, critic and chronicler Jeremy Reed, whose writings cover an expanse of 20th and 21st century culture and whose mission, in his own words, is “to rehabilitate the dispossessed” [An in-depth interview can be found here]